This blog post is aimed at positioning Operations Management Suite (hereafter called OMS) in the world of security forensic investigations and to provide a security investigation example. http://www.microsoft.com/oms Before diving into OMS, it is good...

In the current cycle of customer validation during the last 12 months, we have been working with many enterprise organizations and service providers in order to deliver successful Azure Site Recovery (ASR) deployments.
The journey has been great and...

Jeff Goldner is back with part five of our CPS workload deployment series. As for earlier posts in this series, this information applies to all clouds using Windows Azure Pack. Jeff is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions Group...

For this post, we are glad to host Sarah Sinclair, Program Manager in Microsoft’s Private Cloud Solutions Group.
Hello Private Cloud Admins! My name is Sarah and I’m a Program Manager on the Private Cloud Solutions Group. We’re looking...

In the past 12 or more months I’ve worked quite a bit with Windows Azure Packs API layer, the Service Management API’s. Most of this was working with users who are not always C# or PowerShell users and they wanted to understand how to interact...

Hello Again! This is Vijay Tewari, Principal Group Program Manager for Private Cloud Solutions. Yesterday I had the privilege of joining Nutanix on stage for the keynote of their first ever .NEXT user conference. Microsoft and Nutanix have built a solid...

IT is facing increased challenges in today’s world to keep up with users’ demands and keeping users productive, while also ensuring that they are safeguarding information and users’ identity. Proliferation of modern devices with various...

For this post, we are glad to host Thomas Roettinger, Program Manager in Microsoft’s ECG CAT Team focusing on Cloud Solutions. Thomas announces the availability of another workload self-service deployment sample: remote desktop session hosting....

Hello Readers!
Since the announcement of the upcoming release of Microsoft Azure Stack during the Ignite event in Chicago earlier this month, many of you have been enquiring about where to learn more about the associated technologies, how to prepare...

We are glad to host Rochak Mittal, Senior Program Manager in the Azure Site Recovery (ASR) team. ASR provides disaster recovery capabilities in CPS. Rochak walks us through why DR matters and what the steps involved are.
Most organizations consider...

The Private Cloud Solutions team would like your feedback to help prioritize our investments in the development of private cloud solutions – including future versions of the Cloud Platform System and Private Cloud Fast Track .
We would like to...

Hello Readers,
Just a quick note to let you know that the document from this blog post has just been updated.
It now includes updates related to the latest changes and enhancements in Update Rollups (UR) 3, 5 and 6 for Windows Azure Pack . There...

We are back from Ignite and the excitement there was palpable. It was indeed a unique experience being there amongst our customers and partners. Interacting with customers and getting feedback from you is vital to help us prioritize and develop solutions...

We are honored to host Helmut Otto, founder and managing director of SecureGUARD GmbH, and a Microsoft MVP. Helmut will tell us about the recently announced SecureGUARD Unified Cloud Block (UCB) FastTrack v4 solution, and will give us a good overview...

We are honored to host as a guest blogger Rex Backman, from the data center solutions team at Cisco. Rex tells us about the Private Cloud Fast Track solution that Cisco is showing at Ignite.
I am Rex Backman, and I am responsible for Microsoft oriented...

We are honored to host Kristine Lindely, senior strategist in the Enterprise Solutions Group at Dell, to tell us about the new Dell PowerEdge Private Cloud Fast Track configuration that Dell is showing at Ignite.
So you need to build an on-premises...

Vijay Tewari is at Ignite and he joins us to tell us about some of the CPS-related news there.
Welcome to Ignite! The number of people and the sheer energy and excitement here are amazing. It is indeed a privilege to be here. Many of our partners are...

This week at Ignite we uncovered more details on the new and exciting products that will be fundamental to our cloud platform moving forward. This includes a smaller installation footprint for Windows Server, known as Nano Server. Microsoft currently...

This week, Vijay Tewari introduces the new Cloud Solution track of Building Clouds. Vijay is the Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft responsible for private cloud solutions. You may remember Vijay from his previous role where he was responsible...

How do you grow your puppy into a full fledged dog? It takes time, patience, work, and some knowledge of raising and training up a dog right. It’s not easy, but if you do the work, the benefits are enormous. How do you extend your current on-premises...

We are privileged to have a guest blogger on Building Clouds , Justin Incarnato. Justin is a Program Manager in Microsoft’s Enterprise Cloud Solutions Group where he has been responsible for developing the Patch and Update process for the Microsoft...

We are privileged to have a guest blogger on Building Clouds , Jeff Goldner. Jeff is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions Group. This is the second post in a series discussing new artifacts being rolled out by Microsoft that...

Hello readers!
This blog post introduces the “ Modern Application Modeling and Configuration for Infrastructure Clouds ” white paper from the Enterprise Cloud Group (ECG) CAT team, that you can download at the link below. We hope you will...